The Hunger Games: Spectacle, Risk and the Girl Action Hero

by Alexandra Heatwole, Alex Heatwole, Catherine Driscoll

Book Overview

The 2012 film The Hunger Games and its three sequels, appearing quickly over the following three years, represent one of the most successful examples of the contemporary popularity of youth-oriented speculative film and television series. This book considers "The Hunger Games" as an intertextual field centred on this blockbuster film franchise but also encompassing the successful novels that preceded them and the merchandised imagery and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367734524
• ISBN13: 9780367734527
• Release Date: December 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 124 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"